Mike,
Interesting. Is this something that could be implemented using Open
Annotation [1]? Or maybe that's how you're already doing it ... :-)
Richard
[1] http://www.openannotation.org/
On 2015-12-11 9:46 AM, Mike Ellis wrote:
> Me again (sorry Mia)
>
> I mentioned recently that we're playing with a bit of a prototype.
>
> Here's a first pass:
>
> http://webstories.co.uk/
>
> I'd be interested to hear what you think - does it make sense? Does it
> work? If not, why not?
>
> cheers!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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>
> Mike Ellis wrote:
>> Thanks all - really interesting examples and links - and also lots of
>> enthusiasm, which is always nice :-)
>>
>> I'll try and get some kind of prototype visible on the web soon at
>> which point hopefully things will make a bit more sense..
>>
>> ttfn
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> _____________________________
>>
>>
>> *Mike Ellis *
>>
>> Thirty8 Digital: a small but perfectly formed digital
>> agency:http://thirty8.co.uk <http://thirty8.co.uk/>
>>
>> * My book: http://heritageweb.co.uk <http://heritageweb.co.uk/> *
>>
>>
>>
>> jon pratty wrote:
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> I always thought Webquests were interesting because they had the
>>> potential
>>> to get authors, curatorial staff or 'content creators' thinking
>>> about how
>>> their collections connected to other collections in the context of the
>>> national curriculum. For me, that's one of the most important
>>> opportunities
>>> digital curation brings to museums (and archives) and audiences, and
>>> yet
>>> many online collections still don't appear to gear outwards to other
>>> objects and themes, they're still all about looking inwards.
>>>
>>> The ambitions of the National Museums Online Learning Project were
>>> on the
>>> right lines; it'd be cool to see what your toolset or platform can
>>> deliver
>>> using today's tech.
>>>
>>> JP
>>>
>>> Jon Pratty, FRSA
>>> Creative Digital Producer
>>> 07739 287392
>>> @jon_pratty
>>> Chair, Brighton Digital Festival
>>> CIC<http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/>
>>> Creative Network Programmer, Ideas Test<http://ideastest.co.uk/>
>>> Associate Director, Tech Resort CIC<http://techresorteb.com/>
>>> Associate Director, People in IT Ltd<http://www.peopleinit.org.uk/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Paul
>>> Trafford<[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Mike and Owen,
>>>>
>>>> The path creation scheme at Oxford has a long history.
>>>>
>>>> The idea of a pathway arose from an earlier project to study World
>>>> War One
>>>> poetry conducted by the former Humanities Computing Services in the
>>>> former
>>>> Oxford University Computing Services, which shows how old it is!
>>>> (OUCS
>>>> merged with two other departments to form IT Services.)
>>>>
>>>> It was conceived, I think, by Dr Stuart Lee and the technical
>>>> development
>>>> was led by Paul Groves, with programming carried out mainly by Chris
>>>> Stephens. There is an early reference to this:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ahds.ac.uk/__text__/history/creating/case-studies/wilfred/index.htm
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There followed the Pacific Pathways project at Pitt Rivers Museum,
>>>> Oxford. Brief overview at:
>>>> http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/museumresearchprevious.html
>>>>
>>>> It's no longer available, but project details and some pathways
>>>> have been
>>>> partially archived at:
>>>>
>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20060206094819/http://projects.prm.ox.ac.uk/forster/pathways.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pathways were later included in the First World War Poetry Digital
>>>> Archive, a project managed by Kate Lindsay of the RunCoCo team
>>>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways
>>>>
>>>> Evaluation may be found in reports from 2008 and 2010. See
>>>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/about/documentation
>>>>
>>>> I suggest getting in touch with Kate or other members of the
>>>> RunCoCo team,
>>>> who should be able to tell you about the evaluation.
>>>> http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/about/team.html
>>>>
>>>> I too like this kind of approach, particularly how different levels of
>>>> involvement may be supported.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this gives some helpful background.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Trafford
>>>> Web Officer
>>>> Museum of the History of Science
>>>> Broad Street
>>>> Oxford OX1 3AZ
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Mike
>>>> Ellis
>>>> [[log in to unmask]]
>>>> Sent: 26 November 2015 12:08
>>>> To:[log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Webquests
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Owen, that's great, and definitely closer to what we're
>>>> thinking
>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>> Would be really interesting to know if anyone used(s) it...
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _____________________________
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Mike Ellis *
>>>>
>>>> Thirty8 Digital: a small but perfectly formed digital
>>>> agency:http://thirty8.co.uk <http://thirty8.co.uk/>
>>>>
>>>> * My book:http://heritageweb.co.uk <http://heritageweb.co.uk/> *
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Owen Stephens wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>>
>>>>> The concept you describe puts me in mind of the 'Pathways' that were
>>>> (are?) supported by the venerable First World War Poetry Archive -
>>>> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways
>>>>> I always really liked this idea but I'm not sure how much real world
>>>> take up it got
>>>>> Owen
>>>>>
>>>>> Owen Stephens
>>>>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>>>>> Web:http://www.ostephens.com
>>>>> Email:[log in to unmask]
>>>>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 Nov 2015, at 11:06, Mike Ellis<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all (apologies for cross-posting)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're developing a tool which will allow educators to build what we
>>>> have been calling "web quests" - basically journeys through the web
>>>> with a
>>>> level of curation to help users make that journey.
>>>>>> I know the phrase "webquest" is actually A Thing. See
>>>> http://webquest.org.
>>>>>> Now - if you look at the "recently published" webquests list (
>>>> http://questgarden.com/author/reports/recentpubs.php - the search
>>>> doesn't
>>>> appear to work...) you'll see that a webquest seems to be basically "a
>>>> simple set of web pages" with some kind of authoring system
>>>> underneath it.
>>>>>> This isn't at all what we're developing - the tool we've got sits
>>>> alongside existing web pages and guides people through these so
>>>> that users
>>>> can refer back to the direction the journey is taking at any time.
>>>>>> So my questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Does anyone on the list recognise or use the webquest.org model -
>>>> is it still a thing? Is it useful?
>>>>>> 2) Do you have any examples you can point me to which are more
>>>>>> like the
>>>> thing we're proposing? Or is my description too fluffy for words...
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _____________________________
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Mike Ellis *
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> * My book:http://heritageweb.co.uk<http://heritageweb.co.uk/> *
>>>>>>
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